Facts About Papua New Guinea

Today in Mr. Schick Human Geography class, we continued to study the country of Papa New Guinea.  Yesterday, we finished the documentary based on the book written by Jared Diamond called Guns, Germs, and Steel. In this movie, Diamond went to Papua New Guinea to study the people, geography, and culture of the country. We extended our research today by looking up what’s going on in Papua New Guinea and what the country is like. We broke into small groups and then shared our facts as a huge class .Papua New Guinea is the 12th fastest growing economy. The GPD of Papa New Guinea is .9%. There are just now starting to cut down some of the forests unlike Brazil, who have been doing it for a while now rapidly.  There Net Migration Rate is 0. The number one religion in Papua New Guinea is Christianity. There are very few paved airports in Papua New Guinea. They have an army and even a air force. They have about three million soldiers that would fight in war. 30% of the population is below the poverty line. 13% of the population of Papua New Guinea is urban. 3,100 people are active in the military. The internet hosts is 5,006 and the cell phone users is 125,000 people. The unemployment rate is 1.9%. 57.3% of the people can read and write in Papua New Guinea. There are over 800 languages spoken in Papua New Guinea.